![]() In response to the conditions of occupied France, he cast his lot with the poor and disadvantaged.īrother Roger, as he became known, had a dream to live in community with others who would practice the essential dimensions of the gospel in a manner that would offer a response of Christian reconciliation and hope in the face of the horrors of the war. In July 1940, Roger Louis Schutz-Marsauche (1915-2005), a Reformed minister, arrived in the tiny community of Taizé in the southeastern part of France. The Taizé Community has become a place of pilgrimage for young people from around the world. Short songs such as these are common to the Taizé Community. “Bless the Lord” draws its inspiration from Psalm 103 "Jesus, Remember Me" is a short refrain that quotes Luke 23:42. The transmission of Scripture through singing is also essential to the worship of the ecumenical community of Taizé in France. Short songs that draw upon Scripture are not just the province of contemporary Christian composers. ![]() “Bless the Lord” and “Jesus, Remember Me” are among the best-known refrains from the Taizé Community in France. “Jesus, Remember Me,” by Jacques Berthier
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